A TRIO OF STORY BOOKS, 2014
Made especially for and exhibited as part of Draw Me A Story — The Art of Children’s Book Illustration
1/ Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
2/ As if from the clouds, restless
3/ The Loon of Swan Hill seeks an audience
Gracia Haby
Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
2014
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
With a pair of ETA Salted Peanuts Metroscopix Anaglyph 3D glasses to enable the perception of a three dimensional scene on the printed page
Made especially for and exhibited as part of Draw Me A Story — The Art of Children’s Book Illustration (Maroondah Art Gallery, 23rd January to 15th March, 2014), this artists’ book featuring mermen, mermaids playing card tricks and acrobatic tumblers fanned by the feathered tails of neighbouring birds is best viewed with a pair of 3D glasses.
This artists’ book is in the collection of Monash University Library (Caulfield Campus).
In addition, this artists’ book was made into a pocket-sized zine of same name.
This work, alongside As if from the clouds, restless, and The Loon of Swan Hill seeks an audience, is part of a trio of new artists’ books for 2014 featuring acrobats, circus performers, mermen and mermaids, alongside
Gracia Haby
As if from the clouds, restless
2014
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
Made especially for and exhibited as part of Draw Me A Story — The Art of Children's Book Illustration (Maroondah Art Gallery, 2014), this artists’ book features a short tale.
It was later exhibited as part of our installation created especially for In Your Dreams (Counihan Gallery, 2014), and is now in the collection of the University of Melbourne Library.
This artists’ book was also made into a pocket-sized zine of the same name.
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It was perhaps the feeling of weightlessness that she liked best of all. Sailing above the Alps, performing complicated movements, touching, almost, the clouds painted an impossible translucent white — wait a minute, now they are opaque. What a changing landscape! Such sensory confusion!
How free I am, she thought. From down below, voices in the distance carried, adding only to the sense of escape. She didn’t wave to them, she kept floating — is that the sea I can smell? Somewhere over her shoulder, a sinking sun. Up above, up here, this was her floating world, a cloud kingdom all her own. She flung out her arms to store up the feeling in her body some more before she came crashing down to earth, landing with a very real thud.
‘Again! Have we time to go again?’ she called out, winding the rope in great loops around her forearm as she made her way back to the beginning. How little the world had looked from up there — how small the trees; how small her woes — and she longed once more to deposit her cares in the nest holes of the clouds.
Gracia Haby
The Loon of Swan Hill seeks an audience
2014
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
Made especially for and exhibited as part of Draw Me A Story — The Art of Children’s Book Illustration (Maroondah Art Gallery, 23rd January to 15th March, 2014), this concertina artists’ book features six scenic views, with collaged elements, of Swan Hill, Victoria.
This artists’ book was later exhibited as part of our installation created especially for In Your Dreams (Counihan Gallery, 2014), and is now in the collection of Melbourne University Library.
